3.4.10: Everything really is beautiful at the ballet

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Everything really is beautiful at the ballet

Christine Dutreil, Fe Fendi, Pamela Joyner, Deborah Roberts, Elizabeth Miller, Marissa Mayer, and Dayle Haddon at The School of American Ballet Winter Ball 2010.

Monday night was the School of American Ballet's annual winter gala. You read about it here on Tuesday's Diary. Patrick McMullan's photographer covered the evening better than this reporter and so we are running a larger variety of the evening's guest list.

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Also incuded in a brief vid clip of the three classes of the SAB's dancers from children to young teenagers to young people close to graduating. The little girl you see in the video is ten years old. Watch her. I don't know her name but I am certain one day we all will.

Julia and David Koch

Pamela Joyner, Al Roker, and Deborah Roberts

Liz Peek and Paula Zahn

Anita and Dr. Antonio Gotto

Avi Weitzman and Dr. Elizebeth Comen

Brie Bythewood

Cynthia Rowley

Pamela Joyner and Marissa Mayer

Angelina Leis and Rachel McGregor

Alexis Clark and Gillian Miniter

Ajay Mangha and Carrie Mewha

Dawne Marie Grannum

Jean Shafiroff and Barbara Tober

Patrick Hudson and Kate Davidson Hudson

Ashley Bouder and Marjorie Van Dercook

Jonathan Johnson and Uduak Inokon

Valentin and Yaz Hernandez

Alexandra Lebenthal and Dayle Haddon

Douglas Hannant and Frederick Anderson

Rosemary Baker and Angelique Griepp

Paul McCartney, Peter Martins, and Paula Zahn

Kelly Rutherford and Stacey Bendet Eisner

Darci Kistler, Peter Martins, and Talicia Martins

Pamela Joyner and Candace Beineke

Peter Martins, Marjorie Van Dercook, and Nicolas Luchsinger

Tuesday night at Doubles in the Sherry Netherland, Cynthia Lufkin and Dr. Marisa Weiss, President and Founder of Breastcancer.org hosted a reception for Kelly Corrigan on the day of the release of her new book, Lift.

This is Ms. Corrigan's second book. Her first The Middle Plac, chronicaled her experience with breast cancer and was on the NYTimes Bestseller List for 24 weeks. There have been almost 5 million views of her video "Transcending" on YouTube.

Among the guests was Rochelle Hirsch whose book Lumps and Bumps was written to introduce the topic of breast cancer to chlldren in a non-threatening manner; also Geralyn Lucas who wrote Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy; Maisa Accocella Marchetto, author of The Cancer Vixen and Lee Woodruff who wrote In an Instant and Perfectly Imperfect: A life in Progress.

Breast cancer has become so common in our country most of us know someone and perhaps many women who have had it and survived it. This reception was a kind of recognition of those women who've survived and lent a hand to those women who have been afflicted.

Cynthia Lufkin, Dr. Marisa Weiss, Rochelle Hirsch, Ellen Weiss, and Kelly Corrigan

Lisa Leshne and Meg Thompson

Dr. Marisa Weiss and Ellen Weiss

Wendy Carduner, Cynthia Lufkin, and Kelly Corrigan

Pamela Fiori and Jill Brooke

Felicia Taylor, Grace Hightower DeNiro, and Somers Farkas

Joann Lipman, Tory Burch, and Dr. Marisa Weiss

Kelly Corrigan

Ann Fuchs and Dan Lufkin

Marisa Marchetto

Monday night at Michael's Liz Smith hosted a pre-event cocktail party for Literacy Partners' 26th Annual Evening of Readings. Among this years Literacy Partners honorees will be Barbara Taylor Bradford and her husband filmmaker Robert Bradford; Sara Gruen, author of "Water for Elephants," Pulitzer Prize winning author David Finkel of "The Good Soldiers," and Mary Karr, author of "Liar's Club" and "Lit." They will be reading from their works at the Gala on May 10th.

Liz Smith and Barbara Taylor Bradford

Cornelia Bregman, Ellen Scarborough, and Glenn Plaskin

Ed Rollins and Sharon Hoge

Jeffrey Sharp, Peter Brown, and Luke Parker Bowles

Tony Cointreau, Hannah Pakula, and Jim Russo

Shari Rollins and David Hochberg

Elizabeth Peabody, John Berendt, and Liz Smith

Debra Jaliman, Stephen Wang, and Arlene Taub

Arlen and Allen Lazare

Ben Gazzara and Jan Cushing

Liz Smith and Steve Millington

Elke Gazzara, Robert Bradford, Barbara Taylor Bradford, and Ben Gazzara

Jeffrey Sharp and Leslie Klotz

Helen O'Hagan and Mario Buatta

William Gains, Emily Hunt, Julie Ann Michelle, and Conley Turner

Lesley Stahl and Steve Millington

Peter Brown

Randy Jones and Connie Jones

Harold Reed and Jill Spalding

Iris Love and Yanna Avis

This past Tuesday night at the Park Avenue Armory at 67th Street they held the preview of 22nd annual The Art Show benefiting the Henry Street Settlement. The Art Show is organized by the Art Dealers Association of America. Honorary chairs for the evening were Bunty and Tom Armstrong, Agnes Gund, Susana Torruella Leval, and Adam Sheffer. Co-chairs were Estrelita and Daniel Brodsky, Alexandra Lebenthal and Byron and Anita Volz Wien.